Saturday, January 12, 2013

Christmas!!!

This year we had Christmas in Roosevelt with Kev's family. Kev had to work on Christmas eve, but we all went down on Sat. the 22nd. Kev got to Roosevelt the 24th in the afternoon. On the 23rd, it's Aunt Kiley's bday so these first pics are from her opening her presents. Z loves draping herself with clothes, towels, or anything of that sort.

AND she got her big girl car seat. I forgot to take a pic of it though! That was her "big present" I guess. ;) Kev also surprised her with a book and that just melted my heart. He got her the Ugly Duckling and said he wants to teach her what this book is about. This year, we said we weren't going to buy anything for each other. We had spent a lot of money for job interviews so we were happy with not buying anything for our anniversary or Christmas. (Our 6th anniversary was on the 30th). Kev told me though, "please don't get me anything, but i got you something. If you get me something, I"ll have to take it back and I really want you to have it." So what did he get me? The Kindle Fire! I was so happy! I've wanted it for sometime, but it's really hard for me to justify it. Anyway...it was a pleasant surprise, especially since Kev put all the apps on it and even put pictures on it so it would be all set. I LOVE taking it to the gym and it's so much easier to read while running with it instead of turning pages. He also got me a coloring book and crayons! I know...what's that all about?! Well, I LOVE coloring and I have wanted a coloring book for a couple years now but never actually bought one for myself. So Kev got me one and he bought one for Z so we could color together. :)

Z got this cool little learning block thingy from Grandma and Grandpa Todd.. (not sure what it's called.) Well she loves to climb, and she climbed right on this thing and started riding it like a horse. lol it was so cute.

Kiley got the Kinnect and we had A LOT of fun playing with that! It was seriously so fun and we were all working up a sweat for hours!!

We were in Roosevelt until Fri the 28th. Z had her one year appt! She did well even though she had 3 shots (well 4 including her second dose of the flu vaccination). She was running all over the place. She was 18 lbs 8 oz (15%)...30 something inches for height (90th%). She is still our tall skinny little thing!! Oh how we love her! That night, we all went to the Jazz game vs. the Clippers. Such an AWESOME game. Toward the last 5 minutes, Z was getting restless and just wanted to run. So I took her down to the lobby area where the cheerleaders and the bear was! She went crazy and ran after the Bear when she saw him running. He came up to her and she was a little more nervous when he was close up. I don't blame her though...the face is kinda creepy up close. She kept calling him "Dog" and signing it. :)

Then Saturday morning we headed up to Brighton for an AWESOME day of snowboarding! Aunt Kiley and Grandma Todd watched Zealynn (thank you so much) and it was nice to feel like we were in college again (snowboarding was kev and mine first date).

So THIS is LOVE

Our newest love

our new love!

Our second love

We fell in love!

Our dating days in Logan

How it all started....

There once was a girl named Jessica Kirk. She went to college at Utah State University in Logan, UT. There, she met a boy named Keven Todd. He was from Roosevelt, UT. They were friends for sometime. They watched sports together and enjoyed living down the street from each other, but they were just friends at that time. They became snowboarding partners and loved every minute of it…snowboarding that is! Jessica broke her arm on a massive jump and Keven took care of her. Then Keven got absyss in his throat and had his tonsils removed. She took care of him. Jessica graduated USU and moved back to Corona, CA. Keven moved to Fullerton, CA to sell alarms. They continued dating and fell head over heals for each other. They realized what the right thing to do was and on Dec. 30, 2006 they were sealed for time and eternity in the San Diego temple.

Our Baby Girl

Keven served a LDS mission in Auckland New Zealand. My middle name is Marie. There are a lot of "lynn's" in my family. We wanted our daughter to have a little part of her Mommy and Daddy in her name...that's how we came up with "Zealynn Marie." We have never heard of the name before, but we thought we would see if anything came up on the internet...which we were sure there was something. This is part of what it says about "Zealynn" and we thought it would be fitting for our baby Z:

As Zealyn you are rather serious-minded, responsible, and stable.

You have the gift of tact and diplomacy, and possess a charming, easy-going nature which endears you to others.

You have a serious desire to understand the heart and mind of everyone, and could be very effective in a career or in volunteer work where you are handling people and serving in a humanitarian way.

This name also gives you a love of home and family, and as a parent you would likely be fair and understanding.